STUDIES OF TREES IN WINTER 



The specific name, coccinea (of a scarlet 

 color), refers to the hue of the foliage in the 

 autumn. 



The scarlet oak is found growing throughout 

 the Northeastern States and also in the South 

 and West. 



Pin Oak ^ small or medium-sized tree in 

 Qucrcus palustris J\Tew England, althoiighit reaches 

 the height oj 120 feet in the forests of the West. 

 It is excurrent in grouih. In its youth the 

 branches are rigid and horizontal, and have a 

 tendency to droop stiffly towards the ground. 

 The branches and twigs are persistent, some of 

 the twngs often becoming small, stiff, pin-like 

 spurs, which are a distinctive characteristic of 

 the tree. The buds are small and the twigs slen- 

 der. Alternate leaf-scars. The acorn is half 

 an incli long, in a shallow, saucer-shaped cup 

 with thin scales. 



The outline of the pin oak is not in the least 

 like that of any other oak after its leaves have 

 fallen; for while most oaks are distinguished by 

 their far-reaching lateral branches which divide 

 a short distance at the trunk, the pin oak car- 

 ries its main stem to the top of the tree, and 

 the lateral branches grow from the trunk, form- 

 ing a p}Tamidal head. In the forests where it 

 grows in swamps and wet places, it loses this 



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